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The Legend of La Diosa is Chuck Rosenthal's rollicking paean to love, love, love. His story tells us why, when you meet someone you love, you feel as though you've known her/him forever. It's because that's exactly what's happening, you have known that person forever, and journeyed headlong to be face to face at last.

Rosenthal's story defies summation but asks the question, "What do you do when you live in the grip of a love you've yet to meet - and it's real." His language cavorts as he spins his audacious tale to focus on happiness as a...

The young seeker of Joe Ely's REVERB is the son of -pioneers who came seeking freedom who found so much of it that they couldn't handle it.- He lives in Lubbock, Texas, a town that exists in -a normal state of static chaos.- It is the so-called Summer of Love and 18-year-old Earle hitchhikes the road and rides the rails with only his guitar. He is on an odyssey to find himself.

-In this sense-rich, threshold-crossing, body-wise, girl-to-woman story, the lyricism of the verse novel allows for fluidity between internal and external impressions. Wonderfully grounded in concrete descriptions of cooking, crafting and motorcycle riding, it is the space between words and the ideas suspended in the titled chapters that makes way for the heightened or expansive awareness that the narrator realizes. It is through her sense-rich and supersensible realizations that she can experience the beauty of what will never happen quite like that again.-

--Michael Ventura &...

The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice is a compendium of more than 300 contributions written by leading scholars from the fields of criminal justice, justice sciences, social work, and sociology. It covers the latest research, policies, and practices regarding young offenders, the processing of juveniles within the court system, and various approaches to treating and eliminating juvenile crime. The origins and evolution of the juvenile justice system, the leading theories and major theorists in the field, and the empirical support for theories and policies...